Speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on 31 August 2017, on the occasion of the commemoration of Lebanon’s “Second Liberation” against terrorist groups
Transcript:
[…] We need to know, o my (dear) brothers and sisters, that the opposing (US-Israeli) project in the region is crumbling and falling apart, and that US and Israeli dreams that were built on Daesh and its sisters and fellow takfiri and terrorist groups, these dreams and hopes collapse, and that the Axis of Resistance is the one who inflicted a defeat on this project, with the help of Russia, to be quite frank and honest.
And as with any victory, there is a price (to pay). If you lose, the price (to pay) is clear. But even when you win, there is a price to pay (but way less than when you lose). It is natural that the victorious Lebanon will be subjected to pressures. And the same for the Resistance, which certainly is subject and will be subject to (even more) pressures.
Today, a huge (propaganda) machine works (day and night) to present Hezbollah as a threat, a destructive group, a problem (you), the Lebanese, the Lebanese people must try to resolve. Tomorrow, they will create you a (new artificial) problem now that we are done with Daesh and Al Nosra. Someone cynical might say: so that your turn does not come, you should let Daesh and Al-Nosra (stay in Lebanon); why are you in a hurry (to finish them off and become thus again the main target of USA)? If one wants to think cynically. But if we think about the national interest, people’s safety, our loved ones’, their happiness and their tranquility, we think differently.
So the Americans will return once again and say for the benefit of Israel: “O government, State, parties and people of Lebanon, you have a (major) problem called Hezbollah. How are you going to solve it? Hezbollah’s power increases (by the day), the accumulation (of weapons)… ” It is you who are talking about the increase of our power. “His power grows, he can do well and prepare, etc. This is a (big) problem. We must solve it.” But they want to resolve it in the interest of whom? In the interest of Israel. Certainly not in the interest of Lebanon.
Hezbollah does not represent a danger, neither for Lebanon nor the Lebanese people, nor the Lebanese State. Certainly, Hezbollah is a danger to the Israeli occupation, Israel’s appetites, and American hegemony and the takfiri project. So we will be under pressure. And we will be presented as the danger, when in truth it is indeed the United States that constitute the danger today. It is this administration, the Trump administration that is the danger.
Who is it who is currently bringing the world to the brink of a global nuclear war with North Korea? Today (the fate) of the world is suspended between two people, regardless of what one thinks of the one and the other: Trump and Kim-Jong-Un. The fate of the world lies in the hands of these people. God knows what they will do. How will they act, where will they lead the world, God only knows. This is the real danger.
Today, the Trump administration led the relations with Russia at the worst level, and relations with China at the worst level, they are on the brink of war with China, as a result of tensions in the South China Sea. The continuous threats of war against Venezuela, the relaunch of the war in Afghanistan, threats to cancel the nuclear agreement with Iran, rekindling the inter-Arab disagreements… Are there people (gullible enough) to believe that the crisis between the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, the UAE (and Bahrain also) on one hand, and Qatar on the other hand, the United States are not able to resolve it? By God, they can resolve it in an hour, half an hour, a wink from Trump or his entourage, and the crisis would be resolved. No ! The United States wants these struggles, these wars, etc.
They are the ones who represent the danger. This administration, this mentality that wants to reinstate the hegemony and monopolize the oil, money and gas, and to protect Israel, (who is now) worried and scared. It is they who are a danger, not Hezbollah.
Today, the continuation of the war against Yemen, and the intensification of the assault, especially in recent weeks, the horrible massacres committed by the Saudi air force against unarmed Yemeni civilians, and we can only condemn it. This war is an American war par excellence. If the United States wanted this war to stop, it would stop in half an hour. This is not an issue for them.
Those who represent a threat to the region today are the United States. Even Pakistan, a US historic ally, this administration has lobbied hard on them, insulted their army, insulted their people and insulted their State, and that’s why they demonstrated by the millions in the last few days to protest against US policy, American bullying and insults against Pakistan and the Pakistan Army.
Who is giving free rein to Israel in the region, if not the US? And more dangerous, we may be faced with the formulation of a new American policy to impose a new model after the end of Daesh, a new model of terrorism, under new titles, new names and new slogans.
We must face these pressures, whatever they are and wherever they come from. How to cope as Lebanese? It is through steadfastness, convergence and unity that we will overcome this stage. […]
HEY!
Who gave Agent Orange the right to jump PAKISTAN to the front of the queue in deserving a good & righteous nuking, & why is week-old news still here?
REASON?: Looks like to me that evil (Muslim) iran is OFF the table for now as a prime target, but now then the conundrum becomes “who to replace them with??”….let’s see, gotta be someone armed, & muslim, & BINGO!
These 2 cartoonish & clowny misfits, one with bad hair & the other with a bad haircut, both which in any true demoncracy would be state crimes if not crimes against humanity, when i see mention of their tweet wars channel to me this image & the titanic twosome in it, to which I’m certain any unbiased future history will relegate them. But which one is which?:
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/2/21/Radioactive_Man_%28182%29.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/600?cb=20130624190342
I like his foresight, even if it is not too difficult to predict the next moves of the won’t-be-ruler-of-the-world.
Thanks for the transcript.
Saker Trump to propose on 18th September 2017 abolition of veto powers on Security Council and the inclusion of India Brazil Indonesia on Security Council on the basis of support for Global Democracy.
Splitting thereby the BRICS.
Shattering the chessboard.
He taketh peace from the Earth.
Will declare a world government of the willing.
Abolition of veto powers? Trump is an idiot
Veto power is the main thing America have used to protect Israel by veto every resolution against their behaviour
The countries consistently seek to stop israels conduct and the Americans block it. There have been so many resolutions against Israel I have lost count
Adding more countries to the security council ?
Which countries? That would need a wider discussion over months or years not just Trump say so.
He just seeks to use the UN to try to look presidential. The speech will be written by the deep state
I have doubts about US able to get rid of “veto” at the UN. If she does so, Israel zionists will be sh*ting bricks. They have literally getting away with murder/genocide becuase of US vetos. If the Vetos are gone, they will no longer be able to conduct their genocide against the Palestinians. Of course, getting rid of the Vetos also have severe negative implications for China and Russia, they will be out voted on almost every issue that they care about!
It turns the SC into a GA.
The idea of adding a few permanent members to the SC is there are nations large and developed enough to be there.
However, I think this time around, they won’t get consensus.
They will never get the end to veto power for SC. It’s the only sane item in the whole thing.
He’s right. US might as well use the opportunity of a war on the peninsula to start their “first strike” option against Russia and China
Ahah.
Regarding 18th September Saker
http://tass.com/politics/963302
It’s always a pleasure to take notice of the intelligent and spot on insights of Hassan Nasrallah. Thanks for the transcription.
@James lake, do you have a source for these to be proposed points?
Removing the veto right can be disadvantageous for the USA as well, and entering India but not Pakistan might not be the best tactical move.
The proposal to bring India, Brazil and Indonesia into the UN security council also shows which countries switched sides. Dear President, dear deep state, thanks for this clarification.
He’s got a talent for fine rhetoric and writes well and gives a good speech.
This is a man prudent folks would do well to avoid if they desire to bring him trouble. Better people make friends…
N Korea is the ultimate sheeple ***distraction***. The only reason the former slave state of Japan is divided is to prevent a unified Korea pushing Japan to third position as a regional power. Japan can just about tolerate China being no.1- China’s giant size meant Japan could never historically aspire to enslave that nation. But Japan will never tolerate its former slave colony surpassing it in military and commercial might.
US forces keep Korea from reunifying just as Soviet forces did the same in Germany for decades. And how fast did Germany reunify after the Russian Empire withdrew? (and up til the day the withdrawal happened the BBC was still pushing the lie that reunification would take at least ***twenty years***).
N Korea acts like a classic magician’s misdirection. “look over here and don’t notice what I’m doing over there where you aren’t looking”
It is true that Trump, being a dribbling outsider, believed all the mainstream media anti-N Korea rhetoric (like most here, sadly)- and instictively thinks the US militray shoul ‘deal’ with N Korea. But Trump has now been neutered to the last degree- so the Deep State knows he can no longer do something foolish. His inner circle are now 100% Clintonites. Clinton effectively is now more of the president than Trump. True- in the shadows she can’t do what she could have done as the real thing. But her team now pulls all the strings.
The real deal is seen in the ending of the Vienna Convention as Trump’s goons raid Russian diplomatic properties in the USA. Sadly that hasn’t got coverage here yet (because, I suspect, it is a censored story in the mainstream media). The Americans are one iota away from throwing out all Russian diplomats, including the ambassador. Putin’s servile voting with the USA over N Korea has emboldened the Deep State to this terrifying degree.
My guess is that Russia will see its diplomatic presence in the USA reduced to only that required to serve UN duties. America is about to give Russia the “N Korea” pariah treatment. It will use the ‘logic’ that you wouldn’t allow nazi Germany a role in the USA today, so why should they allow Putin’s Russia- and the demonisation will be complete.
America’s ***last*** needed Russia link is the International Space Station- but while you were not looking, the USA has took the ‘Google’ approach, outsourcing the problem of moving non-Russian astronauts to the public sector. Breaking all forms of co-operation with Russia is an essential next step.
Did any of you see the dreadful no.1 box-office winner- the Hitman’s Bodyguard? An MI6 production shot mostly in Britain, it demonises one of Putin’s last ex-soviet border states. And the barely hidden theme of the movie is actually how the West should just assasinate Putin.
If Putin ***were*** a good chess player, he’d move Russian nukes into Iran tomorrow, and declare any attack on Iran to be the same as an attack on Russia itself- just as NATO rules about all NATO members. This would send such shock waves through the power structures of the Deep State, the Deep State would be damaged to such a degree it would take at least 25 years to get back to where it is today. Saudi, Turkey, Egypt and Israel would immediately all bend the knee to Russia in respect- and all seek peace. Warmongering would no longer benefit their rulers to the slightest degree.
Instead, Putin will continue to vote in favour of UN security resolutions attacking and limiting Iran. All the regional powers in the pocket of the West will continue to knife Iran in the side, waiting for the US strikes on Iran. And distraction articles will carry on being written about N Korea and Pakistan.
PS Pakistan is still ruled by the British. Pak and India are ‘nuclear’ powers cos Britain allowed scientists from all parts of the Indian sub-continent to learn the secrets of nuclear weapons at the best British universities. The fake cut-out Bin Laden was an old bloke who MI6 recruited to live under that name for years at a location MI6 controlled in Pakistan with the full knowledge and co-operation of the Pak intelligence agencies. When the Bin Laden psy-op had run its course (hint- rise of ISIS = ‘Bin Laden’ must ‘die’), the British told the Deep State to send in a US death squad to kill the old fake.
Pakistan cannot fall under wahhabi control for the deepest of historic reasons, and will always be a powerful ***secular*** ‘independent’ muslim nation like Egypt. And like Egypt, it will always be in the pocket of the West. As I hope most of you undertsatnd by now, Greater Israel and Greater Saudi Arabia are one and the same thing. Wahhabism is actually a ***jewish*** cult rather than an islamic one. And Israel and Saudi Arabia have but one common enemy they actually care about- Iran.
PS Yemen has always been the slave state of Saudi Arabia (and was the last place Saudi princes were able to get ‘whitish’ rape slaves thru to the 1960s- yes ***nineteen***60s). So Saudi forces (actually Britain’s RAF planes and pilots flying under the Saudi flag) murder the ‘sub-Humans’ of Yemen without a second thought.
So stop being ***misdirected*** by the ‘magician’s’ sleight of hand, and keep looking where it matters- at where the USA actions meet Iran and Russia. Putin is going to allow the final insult- America’s perfect demonisation of Russia- and expelling of Russia from the ‘international’ community. And then America will feel safe going after Iran- first demanding Iran leave all ‘foreign’ lands and give up all major weapon systems of defense. When Iran refuses to give in to this ultimatum, the West will attack Iran, and that attack will include nuclear missle strikes.
I still cannot believe this Russian Chinese madness of voting against North Korea.
In my opinion the only reason possible for this appeasement in general of the US and the West by Russia and China is either:
1) The US has some kind of economic monetary leverage on Russia and China…basically they are economically ransomed until now.
2) There are powerful people within Russia and China that have leverage on the leadership within their country’s who want to openly challenge the Western Zionist alliance.
I agree with many that the Russians and Chinese are rational actors, who are taking things slowly and calmly and are playing high level strategic and diplomatic realpolitik…..But at the same time they clearly show weakness.
They are weaker compared to the US economically and militarily weaker. And they will remain so as long as they are doing business and relying on the US petrodollar among other issues.
u missed one!
i realized back about 2005 already, a few years into where the trend was clear based just on public data that not 1 in 1000 were even aware of, that ALL the higher ups in EVERY country which is either directly involved in the growing, or on/along the long transit routes that get the drugs to market, is all-in in on a profit-sharing plan for the drug money out of ghanistan.
Retail street supposedly somewhere $500B- $1 Trillion/year.
in addition to, of course, Their masters higher up who give them their grocery lists of to do’s..
So, they’re All in on it, & All compromised & blackmailed.
endless maps u can find no effort showing everything about all this, as well as the UNDOC department even collects & puts out the charts proudly showing the poppium acreage each year..
The Russian government invited all its citizens to leave the USA and repatriate. Thanks to the US government, a fairly high number of Russians will have to follow suit due to visa and economic constraints. In a potential hot war, this will definitively play in favor of Russia as it does no longer need to bother about its own citizens when flattening power centers in the USA. Therefore, move on, Donald! Burn the last remains of US trustworthiness. You do not need to declare war against humanity. Obama did it years ago when claiming that the US has the right to drone-bomb any perceived threat without due process everywhere.
Putting aside my sarcasm, the Donald seems to fulfill the one wish of about one third of his electors: rip the Washington DC system into pieces because it is broken beyond repair.
Thank You, Twilight for Your words here. Congratulations on thinking outside the box and coming up with valid stuff.
Hassan Nasrallah is always rewarding to read mainly because he doesn’t talk like a politician,
And he accurately records the list of horrors imposed on the world by the US regime on behalf of the financial elite who control it.
On Korea – Russia and China devised a peace plan called “double freeze” way back in May. What happened to it? Who was presented with it? What happened?
Why didn’t it gain traction?
Scarcely reported if at all is the US military build up in Japan and South Korea clearly planned as a possible first strike on China.
The Japanese are now said to be wanting nuclear weapons. Anybody screaming blue murder about that? No.
Japan is said to be wanting nuclear weapons to defend itself against a country which acquired nuclear weapons in the first place to defend itself from the US which is selling weapons galore at the moment on the back of the crisis that it manufactured.
But this is all North Korea’s fault right?
And never reported on are the US nuclear weapons in South Korea. Why not?
Why not is because the west controls the news agenda. I wager 99% of Americans don’t know one single fact about NK or even where it is.
Even less reported on is the ludicrousness of South Korea’s Moon saying he would never allow a war on the Korean peninsula. Moon must know that just as the US can barge into “inviolable consulates” or murder 100 Syrian civilians a week whenever it feels like it, so he won’t even be consulted if the Zionists decide to attack NK and China.
He won’t be consulted because in the event of a war the entirety of South Korean military comes under US command.
And totally unreported on in the fake news media is the hard fact that North Korea and China have a mutual defence treaty and even though the gutter press is trying to pretend that China is hostile to NK the opposite is true – China needs NK in place otherwise they’d have NATO on their doorstep.
Even if North Korea “disappeared” tomorrow the US military threatening China would still be there -and it is growing along with the new military bases in South Ukraine and Moldova presumably to initiate terrorism within Russia – after all what else could they be for.
I see that the “double freeze” plan is again being rebooted by Russia/ China at the BRICS summit. Let’s hope it gets plenty of publicity and it’s success or failure charted so the world can see where the real problem lies.
The future may be unpredictable but we can be certain of one thing. Until it collapses. the US will continue to attack in increasingly worrying ways any country which defies it’s diktat. We can be sure of that.
In the face of all this Hassan Nasrallah’s words are truer than ever –
“It is through steadfastness, convergence and unity that we will overcome this stage”